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1 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | CDBJ | 108516 | ||
Hi MichelleH, me again, I have got some fantastic new for you if you are willing to believe what God says in his Word, the Bible. Read the book of John in the New Testament and focus on what God promises! Here are a few examples that you can claim. John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Do you know that none of us will ever be good enough to make it to heaven? As far as God is concerned there is no good that we can do. Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. We are all sinners is God’s eyes and have earned the wages of death or separation from him for all eternity. But God did something for us that we couldn’t do for ourselves! Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; God has a plan for us and it all revolves around his special Son Jesus. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Michelle, did you catch in this last verse that God has a gift for you? It’s eternal life and it’s a gift; that means we can’t work for it because if we try to work for it we would get wages and that means death. Gifts are free and so is eternal life, but it only free to those who will accept it. Someone else had to pay for your eternal life and that is where Jesus comes in. Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Grace, as mentioned in the Bible, means we can’t earn it and we sure don’t deserve it. God dose all the work through his Son Jesus on our behalf on the cross, he was your substitute and died personally for you! The only thing that God wants you to do is put all of your faith and trust and expectation for eternal life in his Son. God say, if you will do this, then he will give you eternal life as a gift and Jesus will come into you and dwell with you of ever. Ephes. 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Now is that a great deal or what??? Here is my most favorite verses in the whole Bible and you can claim them too. 1 John 5:10-13 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. If you have Jesus in you, eternal life is a free gift and you can know it right here and now. Why don’t you tell God in your own word, right now, that you are going to put your trust in his Son, Jesus and claim this promise for your own? Jesus said, John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Have a great day and I expect to see you in the future life, CDBJ |
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2 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | flinkywood | 108764 | ||
CDBJ, Good evangelical post. As you know, that verse from Romans 3:10, "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" comes from Psalm 14:1-3, which in the context of Romans could mean "no one" as in "everyone is unrighteous", but is this really what Paul meant to say? The verses that follow (Psalm 14:4-5) indicate otherwise: "Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord? There they are in great dread, For God is with the righteous generation." (Psalm 14:4-5). The psalm says that indeed there is a righteous generation whom God is with. The psalm does not say that one was righteous, and Paul can’t be ignorant of this. This ever-presence of righteousness accords with God's answer to Elijah's lament in 1 Kings 19:14: (“…even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”): “Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him." (1Ki 19:18), and also with Paul’s deliberate citation of Isaiah in Romans 9:27: “Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:” (Rom 9:27) Who are the unrighteous of David’s age? Most likely the enemies of David, comprised of those who want his head (Saul), and many of David's northern brethren, the Iraelites. So, in context of Psalm 14, some Israelites were clearly righteous. How did they get that way? Probably by loving God and following the Ten Commandments as best they could (an interesting question, actually). This may not have gone down well with their Baal-breathing brethren, but it certainly went down well with God. In view of this, I don't think Paul meant to say that all of humankind has been historically and universally unrighteous, rather he meant to illustrate God’s fealty to the lost and scattered Israelites, a righteous remnant of whom He intends yet to save. Colin |
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3 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | CDBJ | 108846 | ||
Hi Colin, There are still none righteous within themselves. It is only when one is in Christ that the are credited with Christ's righteousness. CDBJ |
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4 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | flinkywood | 108853 | ||
Hi, CDBJ. I agree. How, by the way, do you suppose the "righteous generation" of David's day earned that distinction? Colin |
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5 | Are you a follower of Jesus or a church? | Matt 10:32 | CDBJ | 108922 | ||
The same way that we do, the only difference is that they looked forward to the coming of Christ and we look back! But they still believed God, clear back to the father of faith and his future son was to be the promised seed or Christ! CDBJ | ||||||